The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-07-30
ottawa, H., July 80. 1887.
Current Events.

Current Events.
The blow NJ Ireland has been struck by
the Irish Privy Council by the proclama
ton ON Saturday Of all the counties oi the
Isl.n under the Cline (COerci0n) act,
Antrim alone excepted and AT meeting
of county officers resolutions were passed
% enforce the act with impartial hrmness
Thus In time of profound peace, an en-
tire country is proclaimed 10 be on side
the pale and protection oi the common law,
and deprived of those general guarantees
aud safeguards of personal liberty which
thousands have died Ia establish and mil
lions have struggled 10 maintain. The
spectacle is 10 the world an amazing one ;
more especially as the authority nov set
40 over ireland Is the most despotic and
irresponsible ever devised under "a cOnstitu
tional form Of government, than which IN
arbitrary military rule " preferable 1T
is," as "A contemporary says, the old law
of the Certew hour once more, for there Is
no offense-from being abroad after night
fall 10 imagining vain things against the
Queen Tor which any unfortunate man or
woman In all the broad counties of the sad
land but one may not be arrested without u
chance 10 answer 10 Omplaint and be i'm.
prisioned without limit" What will the
Irish dog Rebel or bear their aggrava
ii0n In peace, trusting to the fast approach
Ing time when the sense OF justice ia the
vast body of the people will bring back to
Ihem theig liberties, selfgovernment and
safe homesy Time will tell.
Of tha q
the escape from custody OF W. j. McOari.
GLE on last Saturday night. He was found
guilty June 18th, Of conspiracy to obtain
money by false pretenses from Cook coun-
", and recommended toa peDitentiary sen
tence His method was 70 present exlrava.
giant bills to the commissioners through the
medium of confederate, and pocket the
plumber. Since found guilty he had been
carrying on negotiations with Grinnell, on
bis part to get relief from sentence, and on
the part of Grinnell to get facts 10 convict
Mike Mcdonald. One of these interviews
was set for Saturday night, at McGarigle's
home In Lake View. Grinnell, however,
did not put in an appearance, and McGari-
gle went up stairs TO take bath. After
waiting upwards of an hour for his return,
Sheriff Matson went to get him and found
he had been Outwitted. For some days no
trace of his whereabouts or of the manner
of his escape could be found, but later in.
formation leads to the belief that he went
TO CanaGa ca the Mackinaw straits, on the
schooner Blake, which vessel, and also an
other to which It Is thought he may have
been transferred, are now being followed
The story OF the escape, assuming certain
"signs" To be facts, Is, that assisted by his
friend DR.. St John, McGarigle, after leav.
Ing his house, some time abou. or before
III o'clock that night, went aboard the
Car adam schooner Blake which had been
waiting aimlessly at 1t pier for three hours
and which sailed "in hurry" about that
time. The facts how coming to light give
broad shade Of color TO this theory of the
escape.
The doodle trial now In progress before
Judge Jamison Is disclosing "A system OF
stealing and swindling OF the most eXten-
sive and outrageous type, by which Cook
county has been robbed right and left by
dishonest tradesmeD, who combined with
the county officers and commissioners, the
tradesmen paying the commissioners, NC,
commissions" on the bills for supplies AS
furnished, varying from three to ten per
cent and making up the amounts so paid
by charging an additional price, presenting
fictitious billg or furnishing short quaint
ties.
The Ohio republican State convention
was held at Toledo on Thursday Senator
Sherman presided, and Gov. Foraker was
Tenominated for governor by acclamation
The platform adopted contains 10 planks,
embracing the following points:
l Favors protective tariff
Wants law ~ crush anarChism.
Depricates sectional strifes and divi-
sions; We have placed the war, with Its
hates and 1eveDges behind us" (Sic)
Demands duties OBJ wool and woolens
Favors liberal pensions.
Wants the public lands saved for the
settler alone
z Advocates the maintenance of the civil
service law, but does not like Cleveland $
administration.
Extends sympathy 70 Ireland.
Condemns President Cleyeland's vetos
OF private and the dependent" pension
bills.
10 Wants the patent law fixed up.
III Endorses Gov, POraker's administra
ton and his rebel flag" utterances.
IL "Goes for" the democrats of Ohio.
IL Approves the Dow liquor law.
Ia Is something about freights, TO catch
che farmer; If he can tell what 1t means
he can have IL
10 Endorses John Sherman for President
In the usual point with pride" figures of
rhetoric which the great dailies carry In
stock, like their obituaries Sherman said
be would just as soon have this endorse
tnent as be President, but no one will care
20 believe him.